Medium [CVE-2026-68226] add ioremap return check and cleanup
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68226 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx23885: add ioremap return check and cleanup Add a check for the return value of pci_ioremap_bar() in cx23885_dev_setup(). If ioremap for BAR0 fails, release the already allocated PCI memory region, decrement the device count, and return -ENODEV.
This prevents a potential null pointer dereference and ensures proper cleanup on memory mapping failure. A local attacker could potentially trigger a null pointer dereference by causing the `pci_ioremap_bar()` function to fail during memory mapping in `cx23885_dev_setup()`.
This vulnerability could lead to a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-476. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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